Chapter 181 I Know Where It Is

Ma Tianzao bent his sleeves high, his hands were stained with chicken feathers and water, and he reached out to take something.

Lu Miao leaned aside and said, "I'll put it on the small table first. You can take it when you're done. Your hands are wet now, so you don't want to get the smell on the notebook."

"Why!"

Ma Tianzao nodded obediently and squatted back to work.

Lu Miao stood at the back of the kitchen and stared at her for a while, then he looked away and went to the hut to get a piece of ginger and some red dates.

A while ago, when autumn came, Fu Jingyou picked up some dried mushrooms, and she also grabbed some.

What can I say about Ma Tianzao?

Except for the initial arguing and quarreling, she was actually a nice person to get along with recently.

Now that a "master-disciple" relationship has been established, he seems to have become more honest.

She behaved well, was obedient, and had work in her hands.

He does whatever he is asked to do and his attitude is very correct.

This also made Lu Miao think carefully about where to start teaching Ma Tianzao.

Besides this matter, there is something more important right now.

Lu Miao asked Ma Tianzao, "The team leader asked me to select someone to teach them how to compost. I don't know many people on the team. Do you have any suggestions?"

After thinking for a while, Lu Miao added:

"Don't want those who are chatterboxes or dishonest. Give priority to female lesbians."

Ma Tianzao opened her mouth and said, "Don't be such a nagging person, and choose from among the female comrades?"

Isn't this embarrassing?

What woman doesn’t gossip?

Lu Miao nodded and continued to narrow the scope:

"It's best to choose someone younger. If there are disadvantaged groups, give priority to those from those groups."

Although times are not easy, men have an innate advantage over women when it comes to earning work points.

Women are smaller and weaker than men, and for some vulnerable groups, it may be even worse.

Composting is a hot topic for a while now, and as one of the first people to learn it, you will definitely get more work points.

When everyone in the team learns it in the later stage, the work points earned will be greatly reduced.

Lu Miao wanted to take advantage of the current situation and give priority to helping the vulnerable female groups in the team.

As those aunts said before, if you get more work points now, you can get an extra share of food near the New Year.

Moreover, depending on their living environment, this type of people may be relatively more honest and easier to discipline.

It’s true, Ma Tianzao had no idea at first.

As Lu Miao narrowed the scope by swiping here and there, she actually thought of a few characters.

"He Er's mother's family is one of them. Two years ago, He Er's uncle drowned while crossing the river. Apart from her and her four-year-old son Guabao, her family only has a lame mother-in-law."

Ma Tianzao thought about it and felt that no matter which one of He Er's family members was right, it seemed to fit what Lu Miao said, so she continued:

"Maybe life is hard, he doesn't talk much and is quite honest."

Lu Miao nodded.

Ma Tianzao thought about it, and then reported a few more names, briefly explaining what she knew so that Lu Miao could make his own decision.

Lu Miao took a notebook and wrote down the names one by one, planning to wait for Fu Jingyou to come back in the evening and have him take her to visit and ask.

Ma Tianzao quickly finished plucking the chicken feathers, and Lu Miao handed her a large bowl:

"Don't throw the chicken feathers away, just put them in the bowl. You can use them in the compost later."

Ma Tianzao did as he was told and asked:

"Can chicken feathers be composted? Will they rot?"

"Why can't it rot?"

"When the team killed chickens in the past, the feathers would remain in the ditch for months."

"How can that be the same? If it hasn't reached the conditions for decomposition, of course it won't rot."

Seeing that Lu Miao seemed to dislike the chicken, Ma Tianzao felt that she was not the kind of person who could cut open the belly of the chicken, so she asked her for a kitchen knife and chopsticks.

Ma Tianzao squatted by the well in the backyard, and obediently gutted the chicken and chopped it into small pieces. She used chopsticks to pick out the chicken intestines and washed them clean for her.

Not to mention chicken gizzards and the like.

"I always hear you say decomposition, decomposition, decomposition. What exactly does decomposition mean?"

Ma Tianzao asked.

Lu Miao guessed that she would ask what organisms and microorganisms were in a while.

Thinking that she wouldn't understand the professional vocabulary, I summarized the language and gave her a few rough and easy-to-understand examples:

"Humans are also living creatures. For example, if you pick a 20-pound pumpkin and leave it in a corner, leaving it to rot, won't it take a long time?"

Ma Tianzao nodded.

Lu Miao added, "If you chop it up and fry a plate every day, won't it be consumed quickly?"

“…”

Ma Tianzao seemed to understand a little bit, paused for a moment and said:

"If there are more people, and we cook a big plate every time, will it be consumed faster?"

"Humans are living creatures, and ants are also living creatures, each one smaller than the other..."

Lu Miao nodded.

"Microorganisms mean tiny organisms, the kind that are invisible to the naked eye."

"They break down the compost pile. You can think of them as people eating melons. The microbial community is like a large group of people eating melons."

"……oh!"

Ma Tianzao nodded thoughtfully, trying hard to digest Lu Miao's words.

After she cut the whole old hen into pieces and rinsed it, Lu Miao had also prepared all the other ingredients such as green onions and ginger.

Lu Miao asked Ma Tianzao to light a fire. She blanched the chicken, took out a big-bellied soup pot and put it on the stove to stew.

During this period, Ma Tianzao also asked many questions.

For example, why do we need to blanch chicken? There will be oil on the surface of the water, it would be a waste to pour it out.

For example, I was shocked to find that red dates could be added to stewed chicken.

Lu Miao explained to her in detail that blanching the chicken is to remove impurities and blood from the chicken.

To prevent the chicken from having a fishy smell, it is also explained that red dates can replenish blood. Not only can you add a few when stewing soup, you can also eat them as snacks in your daily life to nourish your body.

Ma Tianzao had no objection to Lu Miaohongzao's statement, but she always felt it was a pity that the water used to stir-fry the chicken was filled with oil and was finally poured out.

"Next time, don't pour out the water from killing chickens. Even if humans can't eat it, pigs can. You can use it to feed the pigs in the team."

Such delicious fat...even if humans can't eat it, it's okay for pigs!

You will definitely gain weight.

Lu Miao shook his head and said nothing.

She put the lid on the soup pot, and Ma Tianzao wandered around the backyard curiously.

Seeing that there were several turtles in the large vat under the eaves, Ma Tianzao widened his eyes in confusion and raised his voice to ask Lu Miao in the room:

"Why are you still raising a turtle? This thing bites you so hard! Once it bites you, it won't let go even if it chops your head off. You have to make thunder!"

"Then don't get too close. If it bites you, I might not be able to do it."

Lu Miao had never been bitten, but he was scared when he heard what she said.

Let Ma Tianzao step back a little.

Fu Jingyou had explained before that Lu Miao knew that no one was eating soft-shelled turtle at this time, so she explained to Ma Tianzao:

"Soft-shelled turtle is a nutritious food, and it tastes delicious when cooked."